OpenSolaris

Heads up: OPL Ikkaku platform support in Solaris Nevada

Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:41:27 -0700
From: Johnny Hui <Johnny.Hui at sun dot com>
To: on-all at sfbay dot sun dot com, onnv-gate at onnv dot sfbay dot sun dot com
Subject: Heads up: OPL Ikkaku platform support in Solaris Nevada

With the putback of

     6655597  Support for SPARC Enterprise Ikkaku

Solaris Nevada now supports the new Ikkaku model of
SPARC Enterprise M-series (OPL) family of servers.

Official product name for Ikkaku is not yet finalized.
Ikkaku is a 2U, single CPU version of SPARC Enterprise
M-series (sun4u) server utilizing the SPARC64-VII
(Jupiter) processor.

[Note:
  Ikkaku is a Japanese name for "Narwhal", an
  Arctic cetacean/whale, about 20 feet long; the
  male has a single twisted pointed canine tooth
  or tusk projecting forward like a horn.
  The Japanese word literally mean "single horn".
]

OPL Ikkaku ARC Cases
~--------------------------------
PSARC/2008/092 OPL Ikkaku Platform Support
FWARC/2008/153 Hardware Descriptor changes to support OPL Ikkaku platform.
FWARC/2008/154 SCF Interface changes to support OPL Ikkaku platform.
FWARC/2008/155 OPL Device Tree binding updates to support OPL Ikkaku
platform.

FMA Portfolio:
~---------------------
2008.005.IkkakuOPL

Machine Access
~--------------

Projects modifying their code impacting sun4u platforms also need to
test their code on an OPL platform.  To get access to an OPL system,
please send email including the following subject as:

       To     : opl_hw_access at sun dot com
       Subject: Need OPL Jupiter System Access

[Note that OPL Ikkaku platform is in very limited quantity.]

Bug Filing
~----------

Please use the following bug categories to file bugs against
OPL platform.

    Product:  opl
    Category: opl-os  - OPL Solaris related bugs
              opl-sp  - OPL Service Processor related bugs

If there are any question on OPL Ikkaku support, please
contact
   opl-jupiter-os at sun dot com

Sincerely,
OPL Jupiter Software Team.